linux-kernel - Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:10:08 -0700
From:	Martin Bligh <mbligh@...igh.org>
To:	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]" <Vincent.Fortier1@...gc.ca>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

>> > Maybe searching free text fields can then be implemented.  Then every
>> > message exchange in bugzilla can be used for extracting such info -
>> > questions about HW specifics are asked a lot, almost in every one.
>> > It's a shame we cant' use this information. I was once searching for
>> > "VIA" and got "zero bugs found", but in reality there are hundreds!
>> > Probably something that makes sense to bring up with bugzilla project?
>>
>> That should work now ... seems to for me.
>>
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=VIA&kernel_version_type=allwordssubstr&kernel_version=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=REJECTED&bug_status=DEFERRED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=CLOSED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&regression=both&cmdtype=doit&order=Bug+Number&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= 
>>
>>
>> Produces a metric-buttload of results. Go to the advanced search option
>> and do "A Comment" contains the string "VIA". By default "Status" is
>> only set to do open bugs, which you might want to change to all types.
> 
> Yes it works great! Thanks... I'd say this should be really a default
> search, because first search screen is misleading - it promises find
> all for any "words" :)

OK, or at the very least we can fix the text at least to indicate it'll
only search summaries (and likely only of open bugs at that ...)

M.
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